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Betting against Westfield Holdings is the corporate equivalent of betting against Phar Lap. Both usually looked expensive but history shows that they kept winning and rewarding those prepared to back them.

And, like Phar Lap, Westfield Holdings hasn't just been winning by a nose. It's been doing so by a country mile. Since listing in 1960, the performance of this shopping centre developer eclipses every other stock on the ASX and even outdoes Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

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Did the Westfield Group's merger etc on 30 June 2014 create a CGT Event? I have found numerous documents about the merger and how it affects the cost base allocations etc, but I cannot confirm whether or not I need to disclose a CGT gain or ...

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